1 Peseta Besalú

Besalú is a small medieval town in the Garrotxa region of Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's central coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes locales* framework, were a practical solution to a grinding shortage of small change, not a political statement in themselves.

The printer, Imprenta C. Barnés of Palamós, handled multiple municipal commissions along the Costa Brava during this period. Turró 428 is among the more obscure Girona provincial entries, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.